{"id":23375,"date":"2025-02-18T03:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T03:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ros-atkins-on-the-politics-of-pardons\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T03:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T03:21:03","slug":"ros-atkins-on-the-politics-of-pardons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ros-atkins-on-the-politics-of-pardons\/","title":{"rendered":"Ros Atkins on&#8230; the politics of pardons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">On Inauguration Day, both the outgoing and incoming US presidents issued controversial pardons that expanded the power to new limits. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Joe Biden gave family members pre-emptive pardons, while Donald Trump pardoned nearly 1,600 people charged with crimes related to the riot at the US Capitol.  <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The BBC&#8217;s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins examines how both cited &#8220;politically motivated prosecutions&#8221; to explain their actions &#8211; and why that&#8217;s a challenge for trust in the justice system going forward.   <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cqx9el0p7g4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Inauguration Day, both the outgoing and incoming US presidents issued controversial pardons that expanded the power to new limits. Joe Biden gave family members pre-emptive pardons, while Donald Trump pardoned nearly 1,600 people charged with crimes related to the riot at the US Capitol. The BBC&#8217;s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins examines how both cited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1008,5264,8657,338,1007],"class_list":["post-23375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-atkins","tag-on","tag-pardons","tag-politics","tag-ros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23377,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375\/revisions\/23377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}